We all have gone to Jersey museum & art gallery. In there we have met with chief archivist and archivist assistant, where they have explained what Société Jersiaise is all about.

Jersey archive is like a library of photographs, but not only that but drawing, books, maps or postcards that they store. In the middle of our visit, as we are learning about Elizabeth Castle, they were generous enough to show us material they had stored in boxes regarding the castle.

There were items, mainly drawings, some dating from many centuries ago. As the archive got closer to the present day, there was much more material and records.

The topics they have covered are how the archive stores the material, how they get their material, how other people can access this material and many more interesting topics regarding what they specialise in. We were given a brief introduction on how to operate their website as well as how to access the photographs they have on the Jersey Heritage website. Many of the images can be found easily by searching a desired topic or a time frame or even a wanted photographer. I have learnt that anyone can donate photographic material and most / some will be stored in the Jersey archive for many generations of visitors. What I found interesting is that a couple of artists that I have previously researched have worked with the Jersey archive and donated some of their work to the foundation, this includes artists such as Will Lakeman and Michelle Sank. Jersey archive is good to work with and a good source of material, especially for our photography project which is nostalgia. In the future it is very likely that I will be using some of the images from Jersey archive as the themes of nostalgia and nostalgic photographs are what the Jersey archive is made of.

Photographs from the trip: